Hamas wanted to “change the equation” when it slaughtered 1200 Israelis on October 7. The terror group succeeded but perhaps not in ways it thought.
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When an estimated 6000 terrorists from Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups crossed the border from Gaza into Israel on October 7 last year, the goal according to a senior member of its Politburo was to “change the equation”.
“We had to tell people that the Palestinian cause would not die,” Khalil al-Hayya told The New York Times a month after the attack.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/world/middle-east/how-october-7-has-changed-the-world-and-us-20241006-p5kg57
